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Building on the success of the ISCG-05 Chain Guide, OneUp Components have added two new guides to their line: The OneUp Bash Guide ($79 USD) and the ultra-light OneUp Low Direct Mount Guide ($32 USD). At OneUp Components, we believe chain guides don't need to be expensive, heavy or difficult to set-up.

Vital MTB - 8 April 2016

Chain retention on most 1x chainrings is usually enough to keep the chain from dropping. Usually. For those who can’t afford a dropped chain or just want more peace of mind, chain guides are making a comeback. But they’re also undergoing constant improvements to make them lighter, more compact, and drag free. The new guides from OneUp will help keep your chain in place and may just save your chainring…

The Shark Cog and Shark Cage allow a rider to greatly increase their gearing spread, and not only their low range but also their high range if they decide to go with a suitably larger chainring. This could be a real benefit to a rider with greatly varied terrain.

I headed up to Squamish earlier this week to jump the Shark myself and came away impressed – and with a 50T cogset on my Nomad, as well as a chainring jump from 30 to 34 teeth. Does everyone need 50 in the back? Hell no. But if your terrain goes up steeply in places and you’d like to be able to reach decent speeds on roads or wide open spaces of trail, then this represents a huge opportunity.

So who is the ideal customer for the Shark? As an upgrade, the system makes a lot of sense for anyone wanting more range out of their current Shimano 11 speed 1x drivetrain (or anyone who may buy a complete bike with Shimano 1x in the near future). The Shark kit also seems like a real option for anyone trying to gain the widest range 1x drivetrain on a budget.

OneUp Components have produced, what they say to be the widest rande 11-speed 1 System ever. The ‘OneUp Shark’ is a range of component upgrades for Shimano 11 speed cassettes which increases the range of a stock 11-42T cassette by nearly a third.

Oval chainrings are nothing new, but OneUp are putting a new twist on the concept by optimizing the "clocking" of the power zones for mountain bike riding, as well as the chainline and the number of teeth.

Toothed wheels for making your bike go more betterer. Some for the front, and some for the back. There’s a MONSTER 45T cassette sprocket. The idea is not to give you an easier granny, but to give you the same range with a larger front ring so you can go MOAR FASTERERER!

OneUp Components comes to the rescue with a new 45-tooth add-on cog – plus XTR-specific narrow-wide chainrings – which adds 12.5 percent to the total range and puts the modified XTR setup nearly on even footing with SRAM XX1.

Sometimes more is less. If you’re looking to reduce your rear cluster to a more DH/Gravity oriented setup, OneUp Components has launched a new component called the DH Block that allows you to run 6 or 7 speeds.